Gender Socialization: How I Became A Girl

How I Became A "Girl"
I, as a human being, am a parasite. I am continuously latching on and feeding off that which surrounds me. When my available resources have been used up, I move on--alike most of the members of today's Western society. I mean this in such context of my mothers' breast, which from my day of birth, I used, until no longer could it supply for me what I needed to grow and flourish into the complex member of the gender socialized society that has been a deputy to myself and my upbringing. I was born into a society of conformity, a society I would continue to grow in and…